Animator | Minecraft Blast, New Games

Craft:

Art

Job Description:

We are looking for a 3D Animator to bring charm, clarity, and personality to our mobile Minecraft experience.

You will animate companions, mobs, boosters, and gameplay elements across Meta, Core, and UI.

Your work must balance Minecraft’s sharp, snappy movement style with a softer, casual feel suited for mobile

This role focuses on readability, emotional clarity, and strong performance on small screens.

Key Responsibilities

• Create expressive character animations for Companion and Mobs.
• Animate gameplay elements such as power-ups, boosters, and board pieces.
• Ensure animations are readable at small sizes
• Balance snappy Minecraft timing with bouncy casual motion
• Use squash and stretch, strong posing, and exaggeration where clarity benefits
• Support emotional beats in wins, losses, streaks, and special moments
• Maintain visual consistency with our cute, quirky tone.
• Optimize animations for real-time mobile performance.
  
  

Collaboration and Integration

• Work closely with Design and Art to support gameplay clarity and feedback.
• Partner with VFX to ensure timing and impact feel satisfying.
• Collaborate with Rigging to support customization and cosmetics.
• Align with Art Direction to preserve Minecraft DNA.
• Contribute to animation guidelines and raise quality standards across the team.
  
  

Required Skills And Experience

• Strong grasp of animation principles: timing, spacing, weight, anticipation.
• Experience animating stylized 3D characters.
• Experience with Unity.
• Ability to create clear silhouettes and readable motion.
• Experience working in real-time engines such as Unity.
• Understanding of mobile constraints and small-screen readability.
• Strong eye for performance, personality, and emotional clarity.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on casual or mobile games.
• Experience with Blender.
• Familiarity with Minecraft visual language and tone.
• Experience animating modular characters with cosmetics.
• Knowledge of technical animation workflows.
  
  

What We Offer

• The opportunity to shape the animation style of a major global IP on mobile.
• A collaborative, focused art team with high quality standards.
• Space to push expressive animation while keeping gameplay first.
• A healthy work culture that values clarity, ownership, and craft.
  
  

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.